This video talks about how chemicals and toxins in our food are making Americans, especially children, sicker. The speaker highlights how unhealthy food, like sugary cereals with artificial dyes, contributes to issues such as obesity, fatty liver disease, and mental health problems in kids. It also discusses the presence of harmful chemicals like glyphosate and 'silly putty' in common foods, which are banned in other countries but allowed in the U.S., and how these impact gut health and overall well-being. The video also mentions a protest at Kellogg's to remove artificial dyes from children's cereal.
Key Takeaways
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The health of Americans is declining, with high rates of metabolic sickness, overweight, and obesity, and significantly worse health outcomes compared to other developed countries.
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Childhood obesity has tripled since the 1970s, with almost 40% of children being overweight or obese, and a significant number developing fatty liver disease due to sugar and ultra-processed foods.
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Activists delivered over 400,000 signatures to Kellogg's, petitioning them to remove artificial dyes from children's cereal, as these dyes have no nutritional value and are solely for aesthetic purposes.
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Many common cereals and processed foods contain harmful chemicals like glyphosate (a probable carcinogen and weed killer) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDSM, also known as 'silly putty'), which are banned in Europe.
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Artificial food dyes, which are petroleum-based and can cause hyperactivity and attention problems in children, are required to have warning labels in other countries but are prevalent in U.S. foods.
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These food additives and unhealthy fats are linked to long-term health problems like asthma, skin rashes, migraines, and gut issues, with a strong correlation to the rise in autism and ADHD.
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The speaker encourages consumers to ditch junk food, prioritize whole natural foods like eggs and healthy fats (like olive oil), manage stress, and ensure adequate sleep for better health.
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The speaker believes that pharmaceutical and chemical companies heavily influence regulatory agencies and media, preventing important information about food safety from reaching the public.
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Living in a way that emphasizes local, unprocessed food, similar to the residents of Acciaroli, Italy, who have exceptional health and longevity, can lead to better health outcomes.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition but we look
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at what is new in research what's hot in
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the news or any topic that can help us
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lose weight feel great or live longer
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better usually all three but today I'm
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going to dive into our children's health
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and how it's being affected today kind
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of a fundamental subject added toxins in
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our food chemicals that have been banned
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around the world but allowed in the
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United States
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this is so important because American's
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Health it's declining I could give you
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lots of Statistics but how about in 40
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comparative
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countries we come in last and yet we
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spend a whale of a lot more than any
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other country on Healthcare look around
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I mean every Community has one big
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hospital that they're always adding on
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wings and you know building on more and
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more to the buildings to accommodate all
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the illnesses that Americans have we're
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on more drugs than any other country we
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fared worse during Co than any other
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country by far we're getting sicker and
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sicker the latest is that over 92% of us
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are metabolically sick and about 75% are
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overweight and obese and our kids gosh
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according to the center of Disease
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Control for Disease Control obesity has
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tripled since the
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1970s when only 5% were obese and now it
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is well Beyond
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20% while overweight is another 16 so
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we're looking at almost 40% of our
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children while in Japan it's only
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3% and let's look at fatty liver disease
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in kids first case ever was in
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1983 and now 20% of kids have it and if
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the child is obese 80% chance that they
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have fatty liver and this is just
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because of sugar and Ultra processed
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food you know and fatty liver goes on to
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curosis of the liver and the liver just
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turning to scar
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tissue so the only cure for that is
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liver transplant
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wow well this has been an exciting week
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I joined over a thousand food activists
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in Battle Creek Michigan to deliver over
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400,000 signatures to Kelloggs to
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petition them to remove artificial dyes
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from children's cereal it was a
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beautiful crisp morning and probably not
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the same kind of demonstrations that you
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usually imagine there were dozens of
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young women pushing their babies in
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strollers grandmothers and people like
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me who just want to let the food
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manufacturers know that we consumers
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deserve better
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if you're old enough to remember the
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jingle that Kelloggs had k eou l oou g
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Kellogg's best to you well it's not the
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best to you you know now obviously I'm
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not recommending Kellogg cereal yes
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having real food for breakfast is the
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right thing to feed our kids eggs oh my
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gosh high in choline high in protein you
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want to give your kids a good start of
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the day eggs are a great brain food or
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you know even a smoothie is better than
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the ultra processed puffy cereal that
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just many people aren't aware aren't
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good and then there are many people out
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there that are just looking for the
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cheapest easiest way to feed their kids
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because they themselves are literally
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sick and tired as a result of the food
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they eat and as unhealthy as
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conventional cereal is there's still a
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lot of people out there that don't know
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this information so share it because
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here's a few things you really do need
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to
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know how many kids do you know that have
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gut problems or because your gut makes
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more serotonin than your brain how many
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kids do you know that have mood
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problems stats look at yeah 20% of kids
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have a mental health condition and
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according to the
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CDC by the time a child is 18 over 40%
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could meet the criteria for a mental
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Health
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disorder between 2016 and 2020 and this
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is before Co I might add so you can
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imagine it's going to be a heck of a lot
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higher now anxiety and depression
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between those four years anxiety and
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depression increased over
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27% in children under
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18 what could be affecting their
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health you know gut health is essential
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for brain health so if gut has disbiosis
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because of prescribed antibiotics and
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disbiosis is just an upset in the good
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healthy Flora that's supposed to be
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there you know if you've got been on a
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lot of prescribed antibiotics like I was
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as a kid that sets you up for all sorts
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of problems you know and did you know
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that there could be Roundup the weed
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killer also known as glyphosate
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it acts like an antibiotic in our gut
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killing the bacteria and it is in all
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conventional
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cereals all of the samples tested by the
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ewg had residue of glyphosate higher
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than what scientists consider protective
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in Children's Health as with a margin of
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safety ewg finds findings of glyphosate
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also identified as a probable
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carcinogen by the World Health
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Organization okay we're talking cancer
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World Health Organization comes on the
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heels of a major study published by
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jamama Journal of the American Medical
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Association internal medicine they found
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a significant redu in reduction in
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cancer risk for individuals who ate a
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lot of organic food so if eating food
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not contaminated with glyphosate and
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other chem chals reduces your risk of
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cancer what does that say about eating
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food contaminated with it doesn't take
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Einstein to do that equation yeah we
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need more research of course no doubt
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but that takes time and do you want to
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wait until you or your family get sick
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and this is a hard one to study anyway I
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mean it cancer develops over time it's
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not like a quick immediate thing GL at
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is just one and then here's another one
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polymethyl
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polyan okay also known as silly
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putty it's commonly used in silicone
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cauls and adhesives and sealants and
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it's a defoaming agent it's a mold agent
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it is good for heat transfer in liquids
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and it's in polishes it's in cosmetics
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it's in hair conditioners and it's in
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our food and it hasn't been studied and
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found safe
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there have been no major studies
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conducted on silly putty in food by the
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FDA or food industry since it was
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approved in
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1998 but food inry industry has allowed
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it in just about everything except milk
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Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches
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McDonald's french fries y your French
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fries have silly putty in them if you
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still eat them KFC mashed potatoes and
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their biscuits Taco Bell cinnamon twists
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Five Guys french fries Domino bread
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sticks the list of food that the average
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consumer eats contaminated with silly
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putty it's crazy and I got to say banned
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in
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Europe or did you know that your
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shredded cheese they put cellulose wood
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pulp in there does that sound right to
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be eating wood pulp how nutritious is
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that a new study in the journal Nature
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found evidence that these chemicals
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alter the gut bacteria we call it the
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microbiome potentially causing
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intestinal
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inflammation you know more likely to
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develop inflammatory bowel disease
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metabolic syndrome and weight gain could
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it be your gut if you remember several
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years ago General
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Mills just like removed all the the
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chemical dyes out of their cereals and
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replace them with natural colors like
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turmeric extract specifically in their
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mac and
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cheese okay and they later claimed that
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their tricks you know the Die free seral
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tricks exceeded expectation the consumer
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loved them then it wasn't long before
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they did a 180 and put it right back in
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there they said children preferred the
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dyes of course they would they probably
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would prefer cake for breakfast too or
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they probably would prefer cocaine for
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breakfast but you
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know we
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need to do better you know of course
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they should be banned and did you know
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that these additives are petroleum based
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yellow dye five and six and blue dye one
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and and red dye 40 and BHT they are all
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made from
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petroleum and that is the same thing
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makes gasoline and diesel fuel and
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asphalt and tar petroleum is
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carcinogenic cancer causing not
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acceptable in
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food these dyes require a warning label
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in other countries outside the US
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quoting may cause an adverse effect on
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activity and attention in children ADHD
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may just call it what it is may cause
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ADHD been banned in Norway Austria and
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the
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UK yellow D five and six are known
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carcinogens can increase the
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hyperactivity in children and impact
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children's ability to learn is this one
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of the reasons that autism and ADHD is
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so epidemic
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autism was unheard of in the 1950s when
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I grew up CDC says it was 1 in 25,000
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children now the rate is 1 in
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36 and in some states like California 1
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in
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22
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autism ADHD much more prevalent than
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that but the brain can heal you know and
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the brain health isn't the only thing
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did you know that these additives have
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been linked to Long term health problems
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like asthma skin rashes and migraines do
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your kids have asthma rashes or
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headaches do they have gut problems
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first thing to do is D ditch the junk
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these chemicals have no nutritional
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value nothing okay they they just are
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solely for aesthetic purposes to make
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them more
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colorful and we're being it's consumed
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at an alarming rate Purdue University
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over in Indiana shows the extreme amount
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of dyes being used every day in Foods
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Now versus when they were
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approved
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people children could easily consume
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over 100 milligrams of die every day
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which is well over the amount shown to
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cause
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reactions anyone in school in the 50s
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and 60s can tell you these problems were
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non-existent people hardly ever went to
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the doctor
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but over the years our government
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agencies have been conducting a huge
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experiment on us that would never be
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allowed if we were thinking if we had a
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clue so much has changed but the toxins
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in our food is the worst and if you
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combine that with the bad fats that we
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were encouraged to start eating in the
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60s krisco replaced lard and butter then
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after that we were told fat is bad so
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you got to start trying to uneducate
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people on that one because healthy fat
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is so good for us in fact Harvard study
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came out recently on olive oil and found
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that the Mediterranean diet with a
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little heavy extra on the olive oil had
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an
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86% decrease risk in breast cancer let
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me tell tell you I upped my intake I
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love olive oil healthy fats help the
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cells membrane work better healthy fats
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keep the toxins out and it also makes
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the cell membrane work better so it
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kicks the toxins that have gotten in
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there or the metabolic toxins inside get
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kicked out unhealthy cells can just
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accumulate these toxins that make
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disease so it's going to be interesting
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to see what happens in the Kellogg's
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boardroom this week as the awareness
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grows and people are becoming more
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verbal about the lack of government
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regulations on these chemicals man I've
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seen more activity in the last month
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from the EPA and FDA than I have in
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years nothing substantial yet they're
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probably just waiting to see if this
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momentum is going to grow
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but I know they're getting the message
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that we are waking up to how the
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pharmaceutical companies and the
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chemical companies are running the
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agencies that they're supposed to be
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controlling it's happening as dietitians
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we were appalled about how the sugar
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industry and all the artificial
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sweeteners that we all knew were bad
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were buying the majority of the ads in
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our
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Journal do you think they're going to
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publish anything that went against their
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biggest donor heck no and the same thing
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goes on in network TV listen to the ads
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this is one country that allows drug
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companies to advertise directly to the
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consumer bypassing the doctor you watch
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One commercial after another on drugs
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convincing you it's normal to take drugs
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it may be common but it's not normal the
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natural state of the body is Health we
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just need to remove the reasons the body
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isn't getting well and good natural
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foods are what the body needs to heal
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itself at the meeting in Battle Creek
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there were many speakers who like me
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healed themselves naturally went back to
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real food we're like the canaries in the
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M shaft for me by the time I was 17 I'd
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had five organs removed four perfectly
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normal and one now that I know could
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have returned to normal and when the
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surgeon wanted to schedule a hysterctomy
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I said no figured I couldn't do any
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worse so it takes the right food you got
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to move you got to sleep you got to have
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Stress Management stress can be a killer
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and of course you got to get rid of the
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toxins such simple steps to get us
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healthier simple but maybe not easy in
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this day and time you know if you need
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help making those changes it's my
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greatest pleasure you know I always like
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to refer back to aeri Italy where 15 to
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30% of the population is over a hundred
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with no cataracts and they live with the
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sea with lots of sunshine no broken
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bones osteoporosis nope no heart disease
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in fact they have the cardiovascular
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profile of a 20-year-old they're not
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genetically different they just just
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live differently one thing for sure they
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don't eat processed Dy infused Ultra
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processed cereal for breakfast they
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don't eat organic they just eat food
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that's local and of course it is organic
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but it's to them it's just food one
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thing they do a little different is they
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eat lots of
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Rosemary that is a lot of it and there's
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a lot of good research that I'm going to
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have to just talk about it in another
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show um so you had a lot of good people
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there
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legislators uh doctors all sorts of
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things so both sides of the aisle
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Republicans Democrats taking on the
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fight for good food America make America
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healthy again thanks for listening to
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another edition of today's nutrition as
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always you can listen again on my
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website or any place you listen to
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podcasts I hope this will help you or
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someone you love have a great day and
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may I suggest read your labels
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Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Oct 31, 2024
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Over 1000 food activists met in Battle Creek Michigan to deliver over 400,000 signatures to Kellogg’s to petition them to remove artificial dyes from children’s cereal. It was a beautiful crisp morning and probably not the same kind of demonstrations that you usually imagine. Dozens of young mothers pushing their babies in strollers and grandmothers joined in the movement.